KEY REDS PUT IN SPY'S ROLE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800160055-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: April 8, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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'KEY REDS PUT
1N SPY'S ROLE
1Senator. Says Some Part
Officials -Help', CIA
Washington, April 7 (n--,Some
Communist party officials 'are val
cable spies for this. country, Sen
PYRGHT
CPYRGHT
ator Young (R., N.D.) said today.
The Senator, who serJes on a
Senate Appropriations subcom-
mittee handling funds for the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency, put it
this way:
"Many of our most valuable
CIA operatives in various coun-
tries throughout the world are ac-
tually high-ranking Communist
party ? officials:' -
Young was not available for
elaboration and his office re-
ported he would have 'no further
comment to make on the state.
nist Is an espiona#p agent "to' a
greater or lesser degree." He
added that they are fewer in num-
ber in this country now than at
any time in the past twenty years
and "moat of them are known tol
the FBI."
"Some, Still Operating"
""The agents and operatives of
the Russian KGB b,imilar to the.
CIAI and their G:IU [military
cult to cope with." he said,' add-
ing:
"One o" their mai)r missions is
to seek out top-se7ret military
and scientific infoi ination. The
FBI, which has the aesipnmcnt if
uncovering any sub1 crsive activi.
ties within the Unit(' Staics, has
been able to apprehend most of
these agents but undh'nbtedly some
are still operating, ,iud at very i
high levels." - ' l
ment made- in his newsletter to
North Dakota.
He did say in that report that
Communist party members in
this country usually hide out
among extreme .left or right-wing
groups, - adding:
"These operatives are experts
In their line of work and they find
little difficulty in adapting them
selves to any kind of political'en-
vironment.
Young' said that every Commu-espionage) are much more diffi-:
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